The other day I caught myself realising that the first thing I was doing when I woke up was giving myself a COVID hit of anxiety.   And it is was one I topping up throughout the day.   Twitter, all the news updates, you name it, I was all over it.  …

As we all settle into this new strange time and the global lockdown continues, I wanted to address a couple of questions that I know are on a lot of people’s minds.  The headline of this blog says it all, really: can people have a safe, effective hypnotherapy session over…

If you’re looking to explore hypnotherapy as an option for you, it’s a really good idea to have an initial consultation first.   This blog explains what happens when either Lucy, my assistant, or I have an initial 20 minutes consultation with every single client. Between us, we’ve done many thousands…

What not to expect in a hypnotherapy session: As a potential client, you may be curious to know what not to expect in a hypnotherapy session.   I think there’s a lot out there about what to expect, however, there’s not really that much about what not to expect. I’ve based…

Your brain is both your best friend and your worst enemy. On the one hand, it tells you when you need food and water, it provides you with an awesome amount of information in an instant, and it helps you feel brilliant emotions like love and excitement. But it can…

It’s the New Year and you may have a resolution to be healthier. So, if you want to stop smoking and want to you use hypnotherapy to help you, then this blog will tell you what the 2 keys to using hypnotherapy that open this process up are.   As…

Mantras – if you go back thousands of years – are words or sounds that help with concentration and were often used by Buddhists. But the term has spread over the past few decades to encompass positive words and phrases that can help people to stay motivated. Things that can…

According to new data released in June 2018, fewer people are now smoking in the US than ever before. Time magazine said that the rate had dropped to 14 per cent of the adult population – compared with an estimated 40 per cent in the 1960s. These headline figures suggest…

Hands up if you sometimes feel like a forthcoming event that you're due to take part in – be it 10 seconds away or 10 days away – makes you feel a bit uncomfortable? I can guarantee that almost everybody reading this will have raised a hand (or, more likely,…

When I started out as a hypnotherapist in London, I thought that the bulk of my work was going to be helping people to stop smoking. I thought that given hypnotherapy's strong track record as a proven way to deal with this that I would be helping people to say…